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Quotes About Rumpled

The living room was still dark, because of the heavy growth of the shrubbery the owner had allowed to mask the windows. I put a lamp on and mooched a cigarette. I lit it. I stared down at him. I rumpled my hair which was already rumpled. I put the old tired grin on my face.
~ Raymond Chandler
His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)
~ Raymond Chandler
This man dresses like an unmade bed.
~ Henny Youngman
Style advice? Always wear clothes... that are... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.
~ Steve Carell
Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.' 'I think I saw one in a cave down the road,' I said. That almost got a smile from her.
~ Richelle Mead
His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
~ Kristen Iversen
And then here I am back down, right beside the stone, my body rumpled, happy, crumpled as if it had just made love. Sun. Voices from above. I-330's smile.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
~ L.M. Montgomery
He grinned at her, and although he was in dire need of a shave and his hair was rumpled, Emma's heart gave a little lurch.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Today the man looked a bit . . . chewed. No, humans wouldn't say "chewed." Frazzled. Was that the human equivalent?
~ Anne Bishop
My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.
~ Mel Gibson
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
~ Louisa May Alcott
Eh!" Clemenza yelled. He pulled a moist handkerchief from his rumpled jacket and mopped his forehead. "What's with all the oranges? Everywhere I look, there's bowls of oranges.
~ Edward Falco
Stacey and I were looking in on a disaster area. A chair had been knocked over. A container of eye shadow was on the rug. The sleeping bags were rumpled, as if they'd been run over by galloping horses. And Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne were huddled on my bed.
~ Ann M. Martin
She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
~ Jonathan Swift
Once more Jane sat staring at the telephone. This time she was filled with a confidence that was new to her. Stan Crandall. Stanley Crandall. He liked her! He had seen her once, and even though had been rumpled and grass-stained and having a terrible time with Sandra, he liked her well enough to go to the trouble of finding out her name and calling to ask her to go to the movies. Jane smiled at the telephone and gave a sigh of happiness
~ Beverly Cleary
Our love affair was chic from beginning to end; the rumpled intellectual and the skilled maîtresse.
~ Katherine Bucknell
Bond sat down on his rumpled bed and lost himself in drink and gloomy reflections.
~ Ian Fleming
His reddish hair is rumpled, but in a deliberate I'm-in-a-boy-band way.
~ Carrie Jones
And it wasn't just us. It wasn't just that we were high school, me a junior and you a senior, with our clothes all wrong for restaurants like this, too bright and too rumpled and too zippered and too stained and too slapdash and awkward and stretched and trendy and desperate and casual and unsure and baggy and sweaty and sporty and wrong.
~ Daniel Handler
In the second row was a boy named Doon Harrow. He sat with his shoulders hunched, his eyes squeezed shut in concentration, and his hands clasped tightly together. His hair looked rumpled, as if he hadn't combed it for a while. He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its ridges had flattened out.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
The biggest attraction with wearing seersucker has to be its rumpled look. This is because seersucker has a lack of inherent structure.
~ Roger Stone
My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his
~ Michael Korda
Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled.
~ Nancy Thayer